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  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 06, 2019 After sitting in a vacuum chamber for 15 years, a gas-sniffing instrument will finally get its chance to fly. The device, a neutral mass spectrometer dubbed SEAL, is one of four instruments from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland that will fly on the first set of private landers scheduled to begin delivering science instruments to the Moon starting in the early 2020s. These instruments - which are part of a suite of instruments chosen by NASA - will power the first NAS ... read more |
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India loses contact with Moon landerBangalore, India (AFP) Sept 7, 2019 India's space programme suffered a huge setback Saturday after losing contact with an unmanned spacecraft moments before it was due to make a historic soft landing on the Moon. ... more  
Pulsar Emission Map Thanks to EinsteinBonn, Germany (SPX) Sep 09, 2019 Pulsars in binary systems are affected by relativistic effects, causing the spin axes of each pulsar to change their direction with time. A research team led by Gregory Desvignes from the Max Planck ... more  
Space dragons: Researchers observe energy consumption in quasarsHefei, China (SPX) Sep 05, 2019 Quasars are the Universe's brightest beacons; shining with magnitudes more luminosity than entire galaxies and the stars they contain. In the center of this light, at the heart of a quasar, research ... more  
UN offers use of ESA's hypergravity centrifuge to researchers worldwideNoordwijk, Netherlands (SPX) Sep 06, 2019 Imagine being able to increase the force of gravity simply by turning a dial. A United Nations fellowship is offering this opportunity to researchers all over the world, through access to ESA's hype ... more |
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Observed explosion of monster star requires new supernova mechanismBoston MA (SPX) Aug 16, 2019 Scientists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian have announced the discovery of the most massive star ever known to be destroyed by a supernova explosion, challenging known model ... more 
India loses contact with spacecraft trying to land on MoonBangalore, India (AFP) Sept 7, 2019 India lost contact with its unmanned spacecraft just before it was due to land on the Moon on Saturday, in a blow to the country's ambitious low-cost lunar programme. ... more 
Towards an 'orrery' for quantum gauge theoryZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 The interaction between fields and matter is a recurring theme throughout physics. Classical cases such as the trajectories of one celestial body moving in the gravitational field of others or the m ... more  
Potassium Detected in an Exoplanet AtmospherePotsdam, Germany (SPX) Sep 05, 2019 A team of astronomers led by AIP PhD student Engin Keles detected the chemical element potassium in the atmosphere of an exoplanet, for the first time with overwhelming significance and applying hig ... more 
Planetary collisions can drop the internal pressures in planetsPasadena CA (SPX) Sep 05, 2019 A new study from Caltech shows that giant impacts can dramatically lower the internal pressure of planets, a finding that could significantly change the current model of planetary formation. T ... more |
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 Study Reveals 'Radical' Wrinkle in Forming Complex Carbon Molecules in Space
Chandrayaan-2 Completes Second De-Orbiting Manoeuvre Ahead of Historic Landing: ISRONew Delhi (IANS) Sep 05, 2019 The second de-orbiting manoeuvre of Chandrayaan -2 spacecraft was successfully carried out early Wednesday, the Indian Space Research Organisation said, inching towards achieving a historic soft-lan ... more  |
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Entanglement sent over 50 km of optical fiberInnsbruck, Austria (SPX) Sep 02, 2019 The quantum internet promises absolutely tap-proof communication and powerful distributed sensor networks for new science and technology. However, because quantum information cannot be copied, it is ... more 
Ttiny satellites that will pave the way to LunaGuildford UK (The Conversation) Sep 02, 2019 The space race between the US and Russia ended half a century ago when US astronauts became the first to walk on the moon. Today there's yet another race, prompted by China's successful landing on t ... more  
NASA Selects Proposals to Advance Understanding of Space WeatherWashington DC (SPX) Sep 04, 2019 NASA has selected three proposals for concept studies of missions that could help us better understand the dynamic space weather system driven by the Sun that manifests near Earth. The proposa ... more 
Scientists measure precise proton radius to help resolve decade-old puzzleToronto, Canada (SPX) Sep 06, 2019 York University researchers have made a precise measurement of the size of the proton - a crucial step towards solving a mystery that has preoccupied scientists around the world for the past decade. ... more 
Closing in on elusive particlesMunich, Germany (SPX) Sep 06, 2019 In the quest to prove that matter can be produced without antimatter, the GERDA experiment at the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory in Italy is looking for signs of neutrinoless double beta decay. T ... more |
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 
Storm clouds rooted deep in Jupiter's atmosphere are affecting the planet's white zones and colorful belts, creating disturbances in their flow and even changing their color.
Thanks to coordinated observations of the planet in January 2017 by six ground-based optical and radio telescopes and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, a University of California, Berkeley, astronomer and her colleagues ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 05, 2019 
A new study from Caltech shows that giant impacts can dramatically lower the internal pressure of planets, a finding that could significantly change the current model of planetary formation.
The impacts, such as the one that is thought to have caused the formation of the earth's moon roughly 4.5 billion years ago, could cause random fluctuations in core and mantle pressures that would expl ... more |
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 Swindon UK (Sputnik) Sep 09, 2019 
Volcanic Martian meteorites known as "nakhlites owe their name to El Nakhla in Egypt, where they first landed on Earth in 1911. Although they hold traces of impact of liquid water on the Martian surface the process which generated the fluids has been a mystery.
A recent study entailing modern analysis of Martian meteorites has revealed stunning new details about how asteroid impacts facili ... more |
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 New Delhi (IANS) Sep 05, 2019 
The second de-orbiting manoeuvre of Chandrayaan -2 spacecraft was successfully carried out early Wednesday, the Indian Space Research Organisation said, inching towards achieving a historic soft-landing on the lunar surface. The nine-second de-orbiting or retro-orbiting manoeuvre was executed at 3:42am using the onboard propulsion system, the space agency said.
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 Boston MA (SPX) Aug 16, 2019  Scientists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian have announced the discovery of the most massive star ever known to be destroyed by a supernova explosion, challenging known models of how massive stars die and providing insight into the death of the first stars in the universe.
First noticed in November 2016 by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia satellite, three year ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 27, 2019 
NASA's P-3B science aircraft soared into the skies over the Philippines on Aug. 25 to begin a nearly two-month-long investigation on the impact that smoke from fires and pollution have on clouds, a key factor in improving weather and climate forecasts.
The Cloud, Aerosol, and Monsoon Processes Philippines Experiment (CAMP2Ex) is the most comprehensive field campaign to date in Maritime Sou ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Sep 04, 2019 
Asteroid researchers and spacecraft engineers from the US, Europe and around the world will gather in Rome next week to discuss the latest progress in their common goal: an ambitious double-spacecraft mission to deflect an asteroid in space, to prove the technique as a viable method of planetary defence.
This combined mission is known as the Asteroid Impact Deflection Assessment, or AIDA f ... more |
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 Fairbanks AK (SPX) Sep 06, 2019 
Aurora-watchers gazing at spectacular displays over the Labor Day weekend may have been seeing more than the northern lights. They may have been dazzled by STEVE as well.
STEVE is short for the Strong Thermal Emissions Velocity Enhancement, a celestial phenomenon auroral researchers, citizen-scientists and photography enthusiasts first introduced to the world in 2016.
STEVE's narrow ... more |
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 Jiuquan, China (XNA) Sep 02, 2019 
Two satellites for technological experiments were sent into space by a Kuaizhou-1A, or KZ-1A, carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Saturday.
The rocket blasted off at 7:41 a.m. and sent the two satellites into their planned orbit.
Kuaizhou-1A, meaning speedy vessel, is a low-cost solid-fuel carrier rocket with high reliability and a short prep ... more |
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Boston MA (SPX) Aug 16, 2019 Scientists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian have announced the discovery of the most massive star ever known to be destroyed by a supernova explosion, challenging known models of how massive stars die and providing insight into the death of the first stars in the universe.
First noticed in November 2016 by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia satellite, three year ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 30, 2019 
Stone tools recovered from an archaeological dig in western Idaho suggest humans were living in the region at least 16,000 years ago, 1,000 years earlier than previously thought.
The discovery, published Friday in the journal Science, supports the theory that the earliest human migrations into the Americas followed a Pacific coastal route, not an inland ice-free corridor.
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 Dubai (Sputnik) Sep 04, 2019 
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) plan to train more astronauts for the Arab world, Yousuf Hamad Al Shaibani, the director general of the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC), said on Monday.
He was speaking on the occasion of the end of UAE future spacemen's examination training in Russia's Gagarin State Scientific Research and Testing Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC).
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 Kulusuk, Denmark (AFP) Sept 6, 2019 
Tethered between pastel-coloured wooden houses in the Greenlandic village of Kulusuk and on hills nearby, the island's famous sled dogs wait through the summer for the ice to form so their hunting season can begin.
Greenlanders prize the dogs for their endurance, using them to pull their sleds to hunt seals, whales and polar bears in the winter months when temperatures can drop to minus 35 d ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Sep 6, 2019 
Scientists have uncovered the link between Hawaii's famous Kīlauea volcano and an algae super bloom.
Last summer, more than a billion tons of lava from Kīlauea flowed into the waters of the Pacific. The event itself wasn't out of the norm, but when scientists analyzed satellite photos of the eruption, they were surprised to see a second eruption - an eruption of green along Hawaii's ... more |
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 Noordwijk, Netherlands (SPX) Sep 06, 2019 
Imagine being able to increase the force of gravity simply by turning a dial. A United Nations fellowship is offering this opportunity to researchers all over the world, through access to ESA's hypergravity-generating Large Diameter Centrifuge.
Manipulate gravity and a lot of other factors shift too: bubbles in liquid alter their behaviour, convection currents accelerate and metal alloys f ... more |
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